We appreciate the enormous support that our ABestWeb community has experienced over the many years it has served its members and sponsors. We have decided to exit this business and have placed the property up for sale and we are actively entertaining interest.

In the meantime, community members will be able to read but not post to ABestWeb beginning on Jan. 18.

We want to thank you for your numerous contributions and your ongoing support. If you have any questions, please let us know.

I am the creator of a piece of software that is selling for between $49 and $149/month to local businesses. We have hundreds of customers and our retention rate it outstanding. Here's my question.
We are paying 20% commission every month to a handful of people who have offered to sell our service. I would like to create an affiliate program where I can ...

Find people interested and qualified to sell our service.
Create the tools they need to sell our service.
Keep track of each sale.

What is the fastest way to learn what I need to know to do this right?

Mauibob... Take a look at Warrior Forum and JVZoo. They are very open to product owners such as yourself offering your products through their site. They literally have 1000's of affiliate marketers who are constantly looking for a product to promote. You may even strike up a JV partnership with them....

Finding affiliates and recruiting them is one thing. Building an affiliate system is another. Gets pretty complex. I suggest paying someone who knows their stuff a block of time to take time away from their projects to coach you. Most of us learned by being mentored or coached from someone with a good track record. There's really too much to it all these days to expect someone to just fork out 40-60 hours of their knowledge for free. I guess you can learn piece by piece while participating at abestweb.com but really the faster way is to find someone you connect with and offer them some bucks.